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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

citygatehosting.co.uk

Citygate Hosting | Web Hosting & Domain Registration

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citygatehosting.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citygatehosting.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citygatehosting.co.uk

90 ms

www.citygatehosting.com

1595 ms

style.css

131 ms

style3.css

82 ms

stylev1.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citygatehosting.co.uk, 91% (42 requests) were made to Citygatehosting.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Citygatehosting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.7 kB (59%)

Content Size

848.0 kB

After Optimization

350.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citygatehosting.co.uk main page is 848.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 396.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 6.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.1 kB, which is 33% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 33.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 936 B

  • Original 215.8 kB
  • After minification 214.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Citygate Hosting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 196.0 kB
  • After minification 177.1 kB
  • After compression 63.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 132.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 331.4 kB

  • Original 396.7 kB
  • After minification 337.4 kB
  • After compression 65.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Citygatehosting.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 331.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (56%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citygate Hosting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

citygatehosting.co.uk

citygatehosting.co.uk

90 ms

www.citygatehosting.com

www.citygatehosting.com

1595 ms

style.css

style.css

131 ms

style3.css

style3.css

82 ms

stylev1.css

stylev1.css

84 ms

stylev2.css

stylev2.css

86 ms

stylev4.css

stylev4.css

86 ms

stylev5.css

stylev5.css

97 ms

stylev6.css

stylev6.css

193 ms

stylev7.css

stylev7.css

156 ms

superdupersite.css

superdupersite.css

170 ms

superdupersitev1.css

superdupersitev1.css

169 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

173 ms

homev2.css

homev2.css

207 ms

homev3.css

homev3.css

239 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

302 ms

commonScripts.js

commonScripts.js

264 ms

cart.js

cart.js

265 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

261 ms

jquery.scrollTo.js

jquery.scrollTo.js

271 ms

loading_animation.js

loading_animation.js

336 ms

footerScripts.js

footerScripts.js

336 ms

ga_event_tracking.js

ga_event_tracking.js

337 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

125 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

124 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

124 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

148 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

161 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

147 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

223 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

184 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

131 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

139 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

194 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

216 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

251 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

246 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

287 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

282 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

295 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

351 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

323 ms

getImage.php

getImage.php

320 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

Accessibility Review

citygatehosting.co.uk accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

citygatehosting.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

citygatehosting.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citygatehosting.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Citygatehosting.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

citygatehosting.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Citygate Hosting. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: